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Drawing on dozens of intimate audio interviews with families from all across the country, award-winning psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon redefines what it means to be an “ideal family” in America today. Solomon observes that America, led in large part by the women’s, civil rights, and gay rights movements, has undergone a radical social shift in the last few decades. Although the structure of family has changed, economic and legal structures lag behind and need to adapt to accommodate this explosive new reality.

You are a powerful magician. You manifested this book to help remind you who you are and everything you can do. Real magic can be performed to create your reality and achieve your dreams as you make progress on your spiritual awakening and learn the answer to “what is enlightenment?”

In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlourmaid, she knows nothing about England except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother's pearls beneath her uniform and causes outrage by dancing with a boy called Kit. But war is coming, and the world is changing. And Elise must change with it. At Tyneford she learns that you can be more than one person. And that you can love more than once.

Athson has seen things that aren't there and suffered fits since being tragically orphaned as a child at the hands of trolls and Corgren the mage who serves Magdronu the dragon. When a strange will mentioning a mysterious bow comes into his possession, Athson's not sure it's real. But the trolls that soon pursue him are all too real and dangerous. And they serve Corgren and his master, the hidden dragon, Magdronu. Athson is drawn into a quest for the concealed Bow of Hart by the mystic Withling, Hastra. But Athson isn't always sure what's real and who his enemies are.

In his memoir, The Lion Awakes, Ashish Thakkar describes how, as a young entrepreneur selling computer parts across Africa in the 1990s, he noticed that flights within the continent seemed to take longer than the distances on a map would suggest. “Were the planes slower?” he wondered. In fact, he learned, the commonly used Mercator projection vastly understates the size of Africa, and its 54 countries, relative to other continents.

What is life? What is my place in it? What choices do these questions obligate me to make? More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene - with roots that extend to the mid-19th century - Existentialism's quest to answer these most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom, life has continued to exert a profound attraction.

Conventional wisdom suggests there is a sharp distinction between emotion and reason. Emotions are seen as inferior, disruptive, primitive, and even bestial forces. These 24 remarkable lectures suggest otherwise-that emotions have intelligence and provide personal strategies that are vitally important to our everyday lives of perceiving, evaluating, appraising, understanding, and acting in the world.

[Contains explicit content] The soccer ball goes over the fence, dog-themed medical dramas and not-so-sexy kama sutra. Every week, we showcase the very best of Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. With your host, Caitlin Gill.

[Contains explicit content] Advice from strangers, an ode to how much we like our men and a plea from a man with a common name. Every week, we showcase the very best of Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. With your host, Caitlin Gill.

[Contains explicit content] An Appalachian demise, literature for millennials and the dangers of fairy dust. Every week, we showcase the very best of Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. With your host, Caitlin Gill.

[Contains explicit content] Featuring sets from Andy Kindler, Guy Branum, Solomon Georgio, Joe List and Neel Nanda.

An audiobook in the Tamil language. Life is a song. Say goodbye to fatigue and tension and waltz through life, fresh as a daisy, no matter how hard the going. Listen to this audiobook containing Sibi Solomon's formula for constant energy. Reap its benefits. Get fresh!

Success has many pathways. Punctuality, time management, hard work, positive thinking, and tireless effort: these are the several tools that I need to reach my ultimate goal. And this audiobook teaches all these. If you believe in the single minded pursuit of success, as I do, then you must listen to this book over and over. Go ahead. Put on your headphones and download this book. Your journey to success has begun. All the best!

Are you weighed down by the burden of your work commitments? Do your goals elude you despite your best plans, your hard work, and your talent? Perhaps you are not Mr. Perfect. Perhaps you lack the discipline, the manners, the pleasant disposition to transform your dreams into reality. Here's an audiobook that will help you prepare for job interviews or to project the image of Mr. Perfect.

Olivia Blake loves her job. Restoring art and discovering the history behind it is a regular part of her simple life. So, when her boss presents her with a damaged portrait of a British soldier from the American Revolution, she jumps at the chance to work on it. When her journey to discover who the man was is cut short by a bad car accident, Olivia surfaces in the icy waters of the Delaware River, staring at George Washington as he crosses with his army. Panicked, she flees into the woods and right into the arms of a very surprised British soldier - the man from the painting.

Charlie Lawson's only summer excitement in small-town Wisconsin came from kicking butt in video games, where he's the undisputed Total Turbo champ. Now it's time to go back to middle school, where nine long months of boredom await. But then Charlie stumbles onto something big happening inside the abandoned warehouse across the street from his house. Specifically, someone big. He befriends Bruce, a 20-foot-tall teenage giant whom Charlie must keep a secret.

The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court has special resonance today as we debate the limits of presidential authority.

Drawing on decades of experience, the authors offer a fresh, enlivening approach to the nonprofit enterprise that, too often, is undervalued and thought of as the province of the burnt-out and the overwhelmed. Along with its many candid insights and memorable anecdotes, The Art of Giving also offers instruction on how to create a business plan for giving that works for you.

The postmodern revolution requires marketers to revisit the walls they have erected over many years. That's not an easy thing to do. Conventional marketing strategies are built upon predictability, stability, and the comfort in knowing that we can understand our customer yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We love to put people into categories, and often into super-neat dichotomies, and call it a day. Those walls used to be solid, and marketers relied upon them to build a structure that formed the basis of their traditional strategic worldview.

The Pet tells the story of elderly pet shop owners Mr. and Mrs. Squit and their exploits at the hands of a skunk and a rather silly robber in the run-up to Christmas. Told in entertaining rhyming couplets, The Pet is full of humor and fun and is aimed at a family audience.